Erik Edman only lasted a single season at Tottenham Hotspur but he left the fans with one of the best goals seen in decades by the travelling Spurs faithful.

It was Saturday April 16, 2005. Liverpool had just reached the semi-finals of the Champions League by overcoming Juventus in midweek. It was the year the Reds would go on to win the competition in dramatic fashion.

For Spurs it was the season that Jacques Santini came and left within months and Martin Jol stepped up to take the helm. Edman had been signed in the summer of 2004 from Dutch side Heerenveen and although he did not know it at that point, the then 26-year-old was just four months away from leaving White Hart Lane.

Yet that day in April he left his mark on the club. The match was just 12 minutes old when a Spurs move down the right ended with Andy Reid knocking the ball to Robbie Keane and his attempted cross was deflected by a tackle across the field towards Edman.

Erik Edman hits his wonder strike

The Swede was 38 yards out. He took a touch to control the ball and then another to push it out from his feet. Then he moved forward and unleashed a swerving thunderbolt of a shot which flew above everyone and into the inside of the netting, within the right post of the Liverpool goal.

The Reds goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek could only watch on helplessly as it drifted inside his goal. Edman could not believe it and duly went mad and his ecstatic team-mates mobbed him on the floor.

“It flew off my boot so fast, that at first I didn’t realise it had gone in," Edman later said in an interview with SpursStatMan. "As I normally never scored I had not prepared a way of celebrating, not like Robbie, Jermaine [Defoe] and Freddie [Kanoute] who used to practice them in training!

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"I just ran away in pure happiness, then all the players fell on top of me, it was all a bit of a blur. I remember Freddie in the dressing room after the game saying that I could have ten of his goals, if he could have mine! To be fair he had scored a couple of top class goals during the years, so even now I might consider the trade!”

Erik Edman enjoys his big moment

Luis Garcia would curl in a shot to level for the Reds only for Spurs to go in front again through a deflected Robbie Keane header. Steven Gerrard missed a penalty but Sami Hyypia fired in from 18-yards to grab a point for the hosts.

Edman left that August for Rennes, as he quickly realised that Lee Young-Pyo had brought in from PSV during the summer of 2005 as the first choice left-back. However, his goal at Anfield would remain long in in the memory of the fans he left behind.